2014-10-19

Today I got a gift from my father in law.He didn´t think much of the gift but if you ask me then I´ll answer with a big smile. Being a creative person and finding new ways of making things(whatever it is) then it is a ongoing project. The gift was a plastic mesh with scares measureing 5x5mm.I am planning to use this grid to big factory-windows and also the "metalstructers" inside that will be used for walking. Very nice find. I have drawn some sketches to illustrate my next model in the scale of 1:48 (28mm) and it will be named: factory-model.This weekend I also bought some clay that will be used for making sandbags. The sandbags will be used for the model-project: High bunker and also the bunker-models. Next thing will be how to make surface on the "sandbags" look more textile-like. I will make a tool with a wheel that will be fitted with some textile with a "rough" knit and then I will roll the wheel-tool with the textile back and forth on the wet clay to make "textile-marks".The last thing I bought this weekend was some flags that will be used to indicate the combatants in the wargame: Great northern war in the scale of 1:72.

2014-10-11

Last weekend I played a game of SoTR(Secrets of the third reich)with my friend Andreas. We agreed on 50 points each and we bothplayed the germans. Andreas used a STUG and fallschirmjaegers andI used pioneer-grenadiers with support from my KRW(Käferraketen-werfer=medium mortar) and 10 zombies.We ruled the dices and I choose to start my units behind the trenches.Andreas was unlucky to get the sector behind the river and the bridge.Andreas destiny was fatal because I used my mortar-unit withaccuracy and this decided his fate. Finally Andreas managed to cross the river with his tank and occupied on of the hills and fought back bravely before getting knocked out by panzerfausts and a panzerschreck.The game was very intense and fun to play but Andreas mentionedthat his starting point was very bad and gave little option to advance.Next time we will play with more crossing points.

2014-10-04

I am planning to visit the DFFCon 2014 convention in Copenhagen on the 25-26th of october after a invitation from my friend Søren last weekend. Very nice indeed but I have no figures to play games withaccording to the big battle of Lund 1676 that he and his friends are going to play. Very interessting period in the swedish history. I have read some books in swedish that I really recommend. This weekend I will start building and painting my own conversion of swedish Karoliner from this period. I will use "Horse and muscet-infantry from the spanish succession" from Wargames factory as a backbone and bits from the french napoleonic infantry to add some more individual charachterto my figures. I will report on the way what is happening during this project. Check out the interessting blog of Søren with lots of very nicely painted figures and links to history etc: http://blackpowdergames.blogspot.se/Jag planerar att besöka konventet DFFCon 2014 i Köpenhamn den 25-26 oktober efter en inbjudan från min vän Søren förra helgen. Mycket trevligt men jag har i nuläget inga figurer att spela med om jag ska vara med när han och hans vänner ska spela det stora slaget vid Lund 1676.Mycket intressant period i den svenska historien. Jag har läst en del litteratur på svenska som jag varmt kan rekommendera: